It doesn’t collect or use or store any personal data from the site visitor.
Thanks for your answer! And what about the tweets? Does it create a link/connection to the servers of twitter and forwards the IP of the user?
No. The link is between your server and Twitter.
In that respect, it’s different from the ‘official’ Twitter Javascript-based plug-ins which pull data to the browser.
Rotating Tweets pulls the data from the Twitter to the server – and doesn’t send any user data to the server in the process.
Thank you very much! I just checked my page with the Chrome developer tool. There is some connection with the twitter server – the follow button and maybe the logo are taken from platform.twitter.com. Is there any chance that the IP address is redirected to twitter? Can I switch this off?
The whole “problem” is that the IP address is personal data and should not be send.
Good point. The logo is hosted on your website – it’s part of the plug-in installation.
But the follow button is served via Twitter. You can switch it off as an option. And it also respects the ‘Do not track’ instruction.
Thanks for getting back! Sorry for the stupid question: But how can I switch it off?
By default, it’s switched off.
In the short-code, you would have show_follow=0.
In the Twitter widget, it should be ‘Show this follow button?’ ‘None’.
It appears it may still be loading the Twitter code and storing a cookie (although it doesn’t if people’s browsers are set to ‘Do Not Track’) and I’ll see if there is a way to switch this off.
The new version now only includes the Twitter JavaScript if both the ‘Follow’ button is switched on and ‘do not track’ is switched off in the visitor’s browser.
Hey,
thanks for getting back and updating the plugin. Sadly, in the chrome developer tools I still have an issue with the pbs.twing.com. It is downloading the twitter images. I am not sure, if this might be an data issue. But is there a way to switch this off?
Best
Are you using an ‘official’ format? If so, that’s probably the link to the profile image of the person that appears next to the Tweet.
You can switch this off by moving to the original format of Tweet.
In theory, the image could be downloaded to your site and rendered from there, but that’s quite a major functionality change – with potential significant storage implications for the user – and I’d also have to check the legality of it!
Thanks for getting back again.
Now I changed to “Original Rotating Tweets Layout” and this helped to be free of pictures.
Also https://www.cookiebot.com says it is cookie free.
I think with this setting the plugin works fine.
The storing is a real legal issue.
